Quotes About Perfection

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon

A civilização não chegará à perfeição enquanto a última pedra da última igreja não tiver caído sobre o último padre, e a Terra tiver sido libertada daquela escória.

Por que Deus é o ser perfeitíssimo? Porque, se fosse imperfeitíssimo, seria meu primo Gustavo.

They keep saying that their kingdom is not of this world, then take everything they can lay their hands on. Civilization will never reach perfection until the last stone of the last church has fallen on the last priest, and the earth is rid of that evil lot.

Çünkü güzelliÄŸi yaratan, üç ÅŸeyin uyumudur: her ÅŸeyden önce, bütünlük ya da yetkinlik - bu yüzden yetkin olmayan ÅŸeylere çirkin deriz; sonra gerekli orant? ya da uyum; son olarak da ayd?nl?k ve ???k; gerçekten de rengi aç?k seçik olan nesnelere güzel deriz.

For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite color.

Great moments do not last in a confused and helter-skelter world. The idealist dreams how things ought to go, but they don't—there being no perfect human creatures or groups of them.

To believe that our understanding of these dynamic, multifactorial realities has reached the state of perfection is to mistake the science of global warming for the religion of climate change.

We should call on the Creator to show more modesty. He created the world in a frenzy of excitement. Instead of revising his rough drafts, he had his work printed straightaway. What a lot of contradictions there are in it. What a log of typing errors, inconsistencies in the plot, passages that are too long and wordy, characters that are entirely superfluous. But it is painful and difficult to cut and trim the living cloth of a book written and published in too much of a hurry

When you're in war, you don't have to be perfect to be good, you just have to be 51% better than the enemy if you want a moral edge. We in the West have this Utopian idea that we have to be 99.9% good, and if we're not, then we're no damned good. And the enemy knows that.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.

Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.

Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections.

Style is the form of the ideal; rhythm is its movement.

No tratar con la gente permite atribuirle todas las perfecciones

if merely for the sake of exactness in all points

Tout y est sobre, exact, nu, précis, correct. Un phare est un chiffre

How many times have you carried the burden of thinking you have to live up to some ideal "fairy-tale" image of a good mother?

You must see what He sees. Not the view of the mortal, but a glorious world washed clean in magical light and dazzling with colour. You must copy in miniature the world He has drawn. One where everything is carefully chosen, the profusion of nature simplified, men and women incomparably beautiful, everything as precious and perfect as He willed them to be.... The artist is closest of all to the Creator.

self-annihilation is necessary for high art

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws they're entirely internal.